Friday, June 10, 2022

QOD:  The real problem of humanity is the following: We have Paleolithic emotions, medieval institutions, and godlike technology.  ~  E.O. Wilson (né Edward Osborne Wilson; June 10, 1929 ~ Dec. 26, 2021), American biologist

Thursday, June 10, 2021

QOD:  The ideal scientist thinks like a poet and works like a bookkeeper.  ~  E.O. Wilson (né Edward Osborne Wilson; b. June 10, 1929), American biologist  [E.O. Wilson died at age 92 on December 26, 2021.]

Wednesday, June 10, 2020

QOD:  Public virtue is a kind of ghost town into which anyone can move and declare himself sheriff.  ~  Saul Bellow (né Solomon Bellows; June 10, 1915 ~ Apr. 5, 2005), Canadian-born novelist and recipient of the 1976 Nobel Prize in Literature

Monday, June 10, 2019

QOD:  Public virtue is a kind of ghost town into which anyone can move and declare himself sheriff.  ~  Saul Bellow (né Solomon Bellows; June 10, 1915 ~ Apr. 5, 2005)

Sunday, June 10, 2018

QOD:  She was what we used to call a suicide blonde ~ dyed by her own hand.  ~  Saul Bellow (June 10, 1915 ~ Apr. 2005)

Wednesday, June 10, 2015

QOD:  Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.  ~  Judy Garland (née Frances Ethel Gumm; June 10, 1922 ~ June 22, 1969)

Tuesday, June 10, 2014

QOD:  A man is only as good as what he loves.  ~  Saul Bellow (June 10, 1915 ~ Apr. 5, 2005)

Monday, June 10, 2013

QOD:  Grown-ups are afraid for children.  It’s not children who are afraid.  ~  Maurice Sendak (June 10, 1928 ~ May 8, 2012)

Sunday, June 10, 2012

QOD:  Anyone who thinks there's safety in numbers hasn't looked at the stock market pages.  ~  Irene Peter (née Irene Joan Howe; 1933 ~ Apr. 5, 2003)

Friday, June 10, 2011

QOD: Love is a dirty trick played on us to achieve the continuation of the species. ~ W. Somerset Maugham (né William Somerset Maugham; Jan. 25, 1874 ~ Dec. 16, 1965)